Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1887-02-04
NEWS OF THE DAY.

The legislative, executive and judicial ap'
preparation bill calls for $50, 2S6910
Counterfeit one dollar United States notes
are being extensively circulated in Canada.
The resignation of Gen. P. NJ B. Young
as consul general at st. Petersburg has been
accepted.
DIR. J.F. NJ. Geddings, one of the most
prominent physicians of Charleston. ). e.,
died yesterday of 8 heart affection.
Astrologer de Leon, of New York, for kid
mapping girls for immoral purposes, has
been sentenced to fifteen years in States
prison.
The Pennsylvania Senate yesterday pass
ed, by 30 to 2, the bill to submit to the pop
ular vote the prohibition amendment to the
constitution.
Joseph Carter killed his brother Thomas
at Selma, Ala, yesterday, by striking MN
on the head with fence rail, the trouble
growing out of division ofpersonal property.
One Senator and two Assemblsmen at
tended the Joint meeting of the New Jersey
Legislature yesterday, and after casting
three votes for Albeit for United States
Senator adjourned until to day.
The carriages, harnesses, robes, and one
horse owned by the late ex.President Ches-
ter A. Arthur, were sold at public auction
in New York yesterday. The sale was we'll
attended, and good prices were realized.
The Indiana republicans will not admit
the legality of Turpie's election to the
United States Senate, and a resolution was
adopted in joint convention yesterday ap.
pointing committee to prepare memorial
of contest to the Senate.
m
chanics, representing various branches OF
the building trades, met yesterday in New
York to form an organization to protect en-
ployes from the aggreasions OF the knights
Of Labor and trades unions.
The Jersey City police had lively skirm,
iah yesterday evening with large body OF
striking freight handlers in the yard OF the
New York, Lake Erie and Western railroad
Company. but the fight resulted in victory
for the police. The strikers were completely
routed and driven in all directions.
Anderson Perry, colored, was yesterday
found not guilty of being accessory to the
murder of Emily Brown, the aged street
beggar, who was killed on Friday, Decem
Der 10, in south Baltimore, and her warm
and bleeding body taken to the University
School of Medicine to be sold for dlssec-
ton.
A mob Of masked men, about thirty five
strong, entered the jail at Segun, Guada'
loupe county, Texas, Wednesday, and Sc
cured three negroes, Coly Thompson, Andy
Williams and Warren Wilson, and hanged
them to trees in full view of the town. On
each victim was tackled this notice; "Killed
| for murder and arson.
Roman F. Keach aged 6S years, commit
mitted suicide yesterday morning in Wash
ineton by deliberately throwing himself oil
the root of his house, into the adjoining Ell.
ley. A few months ago he was dismissed
/ from his position as messenger in the Treas.
ury Department, which place he had held
for twenty years, and the loss of his position
affected his mind.
Vanderbilts handsome yacht Alva is
finished, and started yesterday from the
shipyard Of the Harlan & Hollingsworth
Company, at Wilmington, Del, for New
York. The Alva is probably one of the
handsomest and certainly the costliest
yacht afoat. She will cost when entirely
finished about one million dollars. The
Alva ia about half as large again as any
private yacht atloat.